Vincent van Gogh

"I feel with greater ease what is necessary and useful in my work."

"Everything changes but beauty never fades."

"A weaker man might be confined to bed for months; but I can shift about a little."

"In my life and in my paintings I do not skip anything."

"To be happy, one must love people as much as one loves painting or music."

"Suffering may be essential to the artist's work."

"How wonderful yellow is! It stands for the sun."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."

"I often think that the darkness that seems so heavy is really just the weight of potential."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment."

"The profound things are also the simplest things."

"Ah, we live for ideals that may never be achieved."

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish."

"I keep the subject constantly before me and I lose myself in the work."

"People who have no weaknesses are not real people."

"The emotion of beauty is always the emotion of peace."

"Every person has an inner light that can shine forth to transform the world."

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded."

"My heart is full of gratitude."

"I have a passion for the stars, for the universe beyond."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

"Every day brings new opportunities if we look for them."

"The struggle itself is the point, not the destination."

"To love many things is to possess the true secret of life."

"I want to do drawings which touch some people."

"The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart."

"I try to do simple things well."